The Quads Are Not What They Seem
Evil Twin Brewing
- From:
- Evil Twin Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Quadrupel (Quad)
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 4.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 07, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 13, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
3.78/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Another beer advent calendar offering, 2017.
This one is a very nice qudrupel, but still a bit on the sweeter side of things. 10% ABV but there was more sugar to convert if they'd wanted to.
There is some hop & bitterness balance, but not quite enough for me.
The head-- what little there was-- went away immediately, and carbonation was very low. Not as yeasty as a Belgian quad, either.
Dec 05, 2017This one is a very nice qudrupel, but still a bit on the sweeter side of things. 10% ABV but there was more sugar to convert if they'd wanted to.
There is some hop & bitterness balance, but not quite enough for me.
The head-- what little there was-- went away immediately, and carbonation was very low. Not as yeasty as a Belgian quad, either.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.94/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
355ml bottle - hmmmmm... I have a suspicion that this is part of the 2017 Craft Beer calendar, and somehow found its way onto bottleshop shelves ahead of time. If so, it's not a surprise to me anymore.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some Loch Ness Monster sighting lace around the glass as things slowly move on.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, Mars Bar nougat, biscuity toffee, a minor musty yeastiness, some Sherry-like warmth, faint earthy spice, and some ethereal leafy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, gooey toffee, white dessert wine, some plum, cherry, and fig fruitiness, still muddled spice, gentle yeast, and more well restrained earthy, musky, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes well off-dry, but hardly cloying in its robust lingering sweetness.
Overall - 'The Quads Are Not What They Seem' sure does seem like a quad, not to sound too redundant and all. It is balanced, and easy to put back, given the ably-integrated 20-proof booze factor, so I guess I won't be all that miffed if I open a cardboard door in the middle of December, and see this one again.
Nov 14, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some Loch Ness Monster sighting lace around the glass as things slowly move on.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, Mars Bar nougat, biscuity toffee, a minor musty yeastiness, some Sherry-like warmth, faint earthy spice, and some ethereal leafy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, gooey toffee, white dessert wine, some plum, cherry, and fig fruitiness, still muddled spice, gentle yeast, and more well restrained earthy, musky, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes well off-dry, but hardly cloying in its robust lingering sweetness.
Overall - 'The Quads Are Not What They Seem' sure does seem like a quad, not to sound too redundant and all. It is balanced, and easy to put back, given the ably-integrated 20-proof booze factor, so I guess I won't be all that miffed if I open a cardboard door in the middle of December, and see this one again.
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